OpenEuphoria

Re: What's new in 2.5?

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Sep 07, 2004
• 489 views

Christian Cuvier wrote:

<big snip>

> As an answer to the "this will hide bugs" issue, there might be the addition
> of a new keyword, say "ifx". "(els)ifx" is to behave just like "if", except
> that it returns false when some conditional expression fails to evaluate.
> This way, the of statement is not modified,, andthe benefits of useless data
> validation may be bypassed. I say "useless" since the coder has to supply a
> check that the interpreter will carry out anyway. Unless it cleverly optimizes
> away, of course :).
>
> Further, any undefined index real bug will show up anyway, most likelly in the
> same conditional block, when attempting to read or write from a nonexistant
> element, which must remain an error condition in a nonconditional statement.

When a subscript error will show up anyway, what would then be the
advantage of your proposal? Sorry, it seems that I don't get the point ..

> This challenges the very idea that the proposed change will hide bugs.
> CChris

Regards,
   Juergen